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When it comes to steering, 1980-1997 Ford trucks have always been plagued with loose, wandering, and unreliable steering. Then go and add larger, wider, heavier wheels and tires and these trucks can be quite scary to drive and hard to keep going straight down the road. Our D60 Heavy Duty Steering Kit fixes the problems with the stock steering linkage and makes these trucks drive much better, but large tires still have a lot of leverage on the steering system that cause undesirable handling characteristics. This is where our steering stabilizer kit comes into play. Adding a "shock absorber" to your steering system really helps to mitigate negative steering inputs that cause poor handling.
This Fox ATS steering stabilizer is the pinnacle of steering stabilizer technology. With its through shaft design it performs like a dual stabilizer setup without the need for two stabilizers. The through shaft design makes it so that the surface area on the internal piston is the same on both sides which keeps the steering feel the same in both directions. Couple that with the added reservoir for extra fluid volume, 24 adjustment settings that can be easily changed with a flat head screw driver or even a penny, and you have the top of the line steering stabilizer that you can adjust to your desired steering feel.
This kit is only for OBS Ford trucks equipped with a Dana 60 front axle. We recommend using this kit with our HD Steering Kit but it will also work with stock steering linkage.
We accept product returns within 30-days after you have received your order. All returns are subject up to a 20% restocking fee after approval.
97 Ford Crew Cab - The mechanical parts/adaptors are of good quality and not too difficult to install, but the electrical instructions could be improved, and I’d appreciate a hard copy to have under the truck.
To get a clean install, I ended up removing all of the thresholds, upper seat belt mounts, and lower panels except for the driver's side kick panel. Then I removed all of the plastic wire conduit, carefully laid out the wires, and made my plan for drilling, cutting and splicing where needed. The only wires that needed to be extended were the main power and ground. Once I had wiring neatly laid out, spliced and the heat shrink installed, I reinstalled the plastic conduit. I spent 24 hours on the disassembly, wiring, and reassembly, but it turned out nice. A few grommets of various sizes like single wire, ¼” and ½” I.D. will come in useful as well as some baling wire as a wire puller/fish tool.
In the end they turned out great and tucked away nicely, but it took me 30 hours to get them installed. I recommend this adapter kit!
Very good quality re-production part for the windshield washer reservoir. The OEM pump fit perfectly.
The light went in no problem and look great at night, the only down side was I ordered the wrong one, which is on me because I didn't realize I had the metal dome light. Only recommend to double check the kit you order. Sorry for the dirty dash, its a work in progress.
Originally planned to piece together a set of links for my 99 Dana 60 axle under my bullnose ford. When adding in the time wasted trying to source different parts and hardware as well as designing them this was far cheaper and very high quality. I ended up welding the tabs to the frame. I figured if I ever decided to run no sway bar they wouldn’t hurt being there. Even when pushed to the edge of the frame there is a little miss alignment from mount to the sway bar but I doubt it would ever hurt anything. I added some 1/2 inch aluminum round stock spacers between the links at the top mount to push the links inward toward the center of the frame and that seems to have helped the alignment of the links and made the mounting position more parallel. Overall super happy with these. If sky’s has made it for the front end of my truck it’s under there.
The cut was off so had to recut the side for the turbo to make it stright to fit
The light went in no problem and look great at night, the only down side was I ordered the wrong one, which is on me because I didn't realize I had the metal dome light. Only recommend to double check the kit you order. Sorry for the dirty dash, its a work in progress.
Originally planned to piece together a set of links for my 99 Dana 60 axle under my bullnose ford. When adding in the time wasted trying to source different parts and hardware as well as designing them this was far cheaper and very high quality. I ended up welding the tabs to the frame. I figured if I ever decided to run no sway bar they wouldn’t hurt being there. Even when pushed to the edge of the frame there is a little miss alignment from mount to the sway bar but I doubt it would ever hurt anything. I added some 1/2 inch aluminum round stock spacers between the links at the top mount to push the links inward toward the center of the frame and that seems to have helped the alignment of the links and made the mounting position more parallel. Overall super happy with these. If sky’s has made it for the front end of my truck it’s under there.
The steering linkage upgrade for my Dana 60 axle is top shelf. The rep at OBS was excellent to deal with, Replies to my questions were very quick and helpful. The package arrived in a timely manner and in excellent condition. I highly recommend OBS for your custom parts and obs parts.
Great product! Easy to install one step closer to getting my Lighting restored!!
Excellent product and solution for my OBS Bronco
